Windows 10: Backup and Restore Task Manager Settings

How to: Backup and Restore Task Manager Settings

How to Backup and Restore Task Manager Settings in Windows 10


Information If you make customizations to your Task Manager settings, i.e. add columns, change sort order, set per tab options, and many others, a New Build update or a clean install will reset all values to the default values. An Explorer crash may also reset these values. It can be time consuming and tedious to setup all your settings again, particularly in the Details display.

This tutorial will show you how to backup and restore your Task Manager settings for your account in Windows 10.


CONTENTS:

• Option One: To Backup (export) your Task Manager Settings
• Option Two: To Restore (import) your Task Manager Settings

OPTION ONE [/i] To Backup (export) your Task Manager Settings
Step One:
Open a Run dialog box with WIN key+R. Type regedit and click OK.






Step Two:

Navigate to this registry key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\TaskManager





Step Three:

Right click "TaskManager", and click "Export".





Step Four:

Choose a location and name for your saved entries. Note the branch is defaulted to the current key, "TaskManager". Leave as is. Press "Save" to save your file.





Move or copy your saved registry entries to an external drive/folder/thumb drive for safe keeping.






OPTION TWO [/i] To Restore (import) your Task Manager Settings
Step One:

Right-click the .reg file (your saved file from Step Four above), and click "Merge".

(Note: This step can be done from the media you saved the .reg file on. It does not have to be copied to the OS drive first)





Step Two:

At the next 2 prompts, click YES and OK.








All your saved Task Manager settings will now be available in the new build/clean install.



Note You do not need to log off/on or restart your computer for these changes to take affect.



That's all!


Related Tutorials

• How to Open Task Manager in Windows 10
• How to Add or Remove Details in Task Manager in Windows 10
• How to Set Default Tab for Task Manager in Windows 10
• How to Reset Task Manager to Default in Windows 10

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My husband has aa Dell computer running windows 10 and he disabled all of the startup items.

Start in Safe Mode, re-enable the startup items in Task Manager, restart the computer normally.

In the future, make a daily image backup so working out of situations like that will be as easy as restoring a backup.

 

Messages import export question? [Urgent!!!]

Hi friend,

Bad news, Nokia Suite sync is one way. It will Backup but would not Restore it back.

Good News, there are two ways to accomplish this task:

1. In Phone, go to Files (File Manager)>Backup/Restore>Backup now.

2. On PC, take a Full Backup of device through Nokia Suite. It will include your Messages. Later you can Restore.



Hope it helps !

Good Luck

 

If I remember correctly(and it isn't actually a "false memory");

When I tried Windows 10 Threshhold, on my laptop last October, before I bought my Windows 8.1 desktop, I really played around with it syncing everything, even though I was coming from Windows 7 and I didn't understand completely why. I know I set a custom view to Task Manager too.

When I bought my desktop and let 8.1 install, then went on line, everything sync'd and not only gave me the desktop from 10 but I believe even this was even sync'd. I thought then this OS syncing is one of the best OS innovations EVER.

Good tut tomcat*Thumbs

 

Terrific resource! Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks.

 

The settings don't work after major updates or reinstalling Windows.